Re: [CODE] Ignore the last post I made to the list :>

From: Thomas Katzlberger (katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)
Date: 10/15/96


You wrote:
> Hi everyone.. :>
> 
> Well, you can forget about my plea for help implementing races in
> my previous post.. [the one where I included a few files.] The
> files fixed themselves, kinda. I was looking at all the errors and
> said, "What if I take this slash out." I did, and it still didn't
> work. I put the slash back in, and compiled again just to look at
> all the errors.. and, guess what.. there were none. The problems
> were gone. I now have some minor bugs in interpreter.c , but I
> think I can fix them myself. But, my new question is: Does anyone
> know how what I did could've possibly fixed 100+ errors in code?
> I'm positive I put the slash back in the same place I removed it,
> so I dunno what happened.. but I'm glad it did.. :>

I know what happened:

You used a DOS editor on it inserting ^M (\r) at the end of all the 
lines ... \ only works if there is nothing than a \n following it.

Cat.
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